While the murder of hundreds of women in Juárez, Mexico, eventually attracted international
attention – and with it, sensationalist headlines – photographer Itzel Aguilera’s
work engages with the complex realities of her city.

The "Indigenous Australia: enduring civilisation" exhibition at the British Museum leads
to the overarching question of who is authorised and best equipped to tell the
story of the artefacts displayed, and on whose terms.

The
US Trafficking in Persons Report exposes exploitation and holds governments to
account. But creeping politicisation and a reluctance to address the political
economy of TIP are compromising its credibility.

While the murder of hundreds of women in Juárez, Mexico, eventually attracted international
attention – and with it, sensationalist headlines – photographer Itzel Aguilera’s
work engages with the complex realities of her city.

The "Indigenous Australia: enduring civilisation" exhibition at the British Museum leads
to the overarching question of who is authorised and best equipped to tell the
story of the artefacts displayed, and on whose terms.

The
US Trafficking in Persons Report exposes exploitation and holds governments to
account. But creeping politicisation and a reluctance to address the political
economy of TIP are compromising its credibility.

It’s up to
us to ‘reframe the narrative’ of development, to move beyond the historic thrust of capital and war and to say no impunity for the murder of
Indigenous women. Jennifer Allsopp reports from WILPF's Centenary Conferencein the Hague.

It
feels as if the entire world has been given over to the most perverse notions
of 'safety' that are really about death
and destruction, cruelty and conflict, grandiosity and greed. Marion
Bowman reports from the Nobel
Women’s Initiative conference in the Netherlands.

Sabeen Mahmud
alleviated intellectual poverty until the day she was murdered, 24 April 2015. In
an interview with Karima Bennoune in 2010 Mahmud explained why she founded a
politico-cultural space in Karachi.

The
profile of today’s front line activist is different to that of the freedom
fighter of old. We need to see her in her wholeness. Jennifer Allsopp reports
from the Nobel Women’s Initiative conference in the Netherlands.

Women
human rights defenders are under attack. The Nobel Women's Initiative conference
convenes today to deepen the understanding of the risks, and to develop strategies to
strengthen efforts to defend the defenders.

The women who have come to the WILPF conference in the Hague from Australia and Aotearoa- New Zealand, say that travelling with your feet on the
ground, or at least with your wheels on the track, is the road to peace.

Just like the skeletons that
were discovered in Diyarbakır in 2012 nearly 100 years after they were buried, Turkey’s past is haunting its
future and demanding that we remember the tragic events of the Armenian Genocide.

With the continued failure of the UN to implement the Declaration on Human Rights Defenders twenty years after it was passed, women human rights defenders are still their own best support and protection network.

Hillary Rodham Clinton will need to listen
to listen to the voices of women working at grassroots on the frontline, and be
prepared to use her power, should she win, to defend the human rights defenders.

The Nation of the Lubicon Cree is on the frontlines of environmental destruction, as it challenges the forces behind resource extraction and environmental and cultural genocide, and seeks justice for all.

Last month the North Korean government gave its permission for
an international women's peace walk across the demilitarized zone which separates it from South
Korea. The women are waiting to hear the South Korean government's decision.

A coalition of women human rights defenders
in Canada is demanding an end to state complicity, and a culture of impunity in
the genocidal violence against Indigenous women, girls, and two-spirited
people.

The terrible migrant deaths off the Italian island have evoked horror across the continent. In a small camp in France, Rebecca Omonira-Oyekanmi talks to fellow countrymen and women who have survived: their hopes, dreams, and learning to feel unwelcome in Europe. (First published in October 2013)

Feminist
foreign policy is au courant, but
what does it mean in practice? Foreign
policy informed by feminist analysis must confront masculine hegemonies in
state military-industrial complexes that fuel and fund conflicts.

If President Rouhani honours his promises and 'de-securitises' the general atmosphere, the work of women human rights defenders could lead to significant and tangible change towards ensuring human rights for Iranian citizens.

Women from Colombia, Syria, Nicaragua and Iraq are implementing multi-layered prevention strategies in their communities against rape being used as a weapon of war, offering immediate protection and countering stigma.

We're living in an undeclared war, staring into the eyes of death daily. People
who don’t know the kind of insecurity women human rights defenders confront every day can’t
imagine how hope helps us to survive.

Without recognising the work
of women who seek to protect human rights domestically, the UK government risks
seeing the activist’s role as a stage of international development rather than
as a core function of democracy.

Women
demanding democratic participation in Northern Ireland's peace process are using
human rights principles to confront the hostility and exclusion they face from
those in control of decison-making
structures.